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Movies that feel likeThe Untouchables (1987)

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

If you loved The Untouchables, the closest films we have are Carlito's Way (1993), All the Money in the World (2017) and Operation Condor (1991). All three share The Untouchables' gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Hit (1984).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian De Palmagrittyepictense
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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%★ 7.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoStarz

Brian De Palma directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the scale than The Untouchables

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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All the Money in the World
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 79%★ 6.8crime · history · thrillerRent or buy

Gritty where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 2010s show

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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Operation Condor
1991 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 71%★ 7.2action · adventure · crime

Crime built on tension, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Untouchables does

Hired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.

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Caliber 9
1972 · dir. Fernando Di Leo
★ 7.4crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: gangster

The difference: Trades the scale of The Untouchables for an angle of its own

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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Miller's Crossing
1990 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 93%★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: prohibition era

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

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Deliverance
1972 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 90%★ 7.6drama · adventure · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

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Red Rock West
1993 · dir. John Dahl
🍅 95%★ 7crime · thriller

Tense history, and it commits to that

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

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Mission: Impossible
1996 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 65%★ 7.2adventure · action · thrillerMaxParamount+

Brian De Palma working the same nerve twice

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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Phone Booth
2003 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 72%★ 7.1thriller · crimePrime Video

Both lean on grit more than on crime

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

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The Godfather Part III
1990 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 67%★ 7.5crime · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

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Primal Fear
1996 · dir. Gregory Hoblit
🍅 77%★ 7.7crime · drama · thrillerParamount+

Tense thriller in both cases

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.

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The Hit
1984 · dir. Stephen Frears
🍅 89%★ 7drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

Both working the same crime territory

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.

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